Overpopulation looms over future

In the early 1950s, UNESCO director, scientist Julian Huxley, had been pushing for international action on overpopulation, although the world population in 1950 was just 2.2 billion. Paul Ehrlich and other scientists began churning out books and articles on the subject. In 1975, the Republican (gasp!) Ford administration produced the National Security Study Memorandum 200 report, confirming what Huxley, Ehrlich and other scientists had been saying about overpopulation and recommending United States and worldwide action to stem population by making contraception universally available. It even noted that population growth could not be reined in without widespread legalization of abortion.

It should be abundantly clear that failure to deal with overpopulation and climate change, and to do so now, will inevitably mean catastrophe: Four-Horsemen-of-the-Apocalypse horrors for billions of humans (shortages of fresh water, fossil fuels, good farmland, forests, important ecosystems, and so on) and possibly the end of civilization. The leaders and enablers of the anti-choice, anti-contraception, anti-climate change movement are criminally irresponsible. Or perhaps they're clinically nuts. Good news! Melinda and Bill Gates have become involved and aware of the problems caused by overpopulation.